Essay On The Evolution Of Women's Rights Movement

The Evolution of Women’s Rights Many historians mark the beginning of the Women’s Rights Movement on July 13, 1848. It all began with a tea party when Elizabeth Cady Stanton was invited to have tea with four of her women friends. During the course of the tea party, she expressed her concern with the way women were treated in this “New America.” Within two days of this conversation, Stanton and the other four women picked out a day to hold a convention. This date was July 19 and July 20 ,1848 and it was to take place at Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls. The name it went under was “A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman.” This is what set of the well known Women's Rights Movement. From this date it was put in the mind of americans that women deserved equal rights of men. Stanton drafted the “Declaration of Sentiments” and in this she used similar words to that of the Declaration of Independence. For example she stated in the Declaration of Sentiments that “All men and women are created equal.” Backlash was soon expressed in newspapers when editors were threatened by the Declaration of Sentiments, especially the ninth resolution that said women should have the right to vote. …show more content…
Anthony, who was a Massachusetts teacher. Susan B. Anthony was an abolitionist, education reforming, labor activist, and a suffragette. She advocated greatly for the woman’s right to vote. She was a huge reformer and founded organizations such as the “American Equal Rights Association” with fellow reformer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She then went on to become the Vice-President, and then President of the “National American Woman Suffrage Association.” She retired as the president in 1904 and then later died at her home in Rochester, New York in 1906. She was one of the biggest reformers and leaders of the early women's rights